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This topic is probably of type sensor_msgs/Image. You could use Rqt image view to look at the images being published to this topic.

Another option is to actually convert the ROS Messages to an OpenCV image. To interface ROS with openCV you need the cv_bridge package. This can be found on the ROS Wiki.

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